Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 439 Sun Ce's Troubled Situation

While Zhu Wei was afraid of Sun Ce, Sun Ce was also very afraid of Zhu Wei.

After all, Zhu Wei once defeated Sun Ce, and Zhu Wei's military strength was even inferior to Sun Ce's at that time, but now Zhu Wei is in Yuzhang and Jingnan, with tens of thousands of troops under him, and he is no longer a powerful existence that Sun Ce can underestimate.

Now Sun Ce only dared to raid Jiangdong and send troops to Jiangdong when Zhu Wei had no time to look east. Otherwise, Zhu Wei's army would come to aid Jiangdong, and his troops would be meaningless.

Therefore, Sun Ce formulated the beheading tactics to attack Danyang City, and he also wanted to seize Danyang in the shortest time before Zhu Wei reacted, so that Sun Ce could have a basis to counter Zhu Wei's possible counterattack.

After all, the delivery of messages over the years still takes time.

According to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's original expectations, Zhu Wei's attack on Jingbei Nanjun and Nanyang Commanderies would be delayed for one to several months.

After all, Liu Biao in Jingzhou can also be regarded as one of the major warlord forces in the world today. He also has tens of thousands of troops. Zhu Wei wants to compete with Liu Biao for Jingbei, so it should be two tigers fighting.

Therefore, according to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's analysis, Zhu Wei will definitely not be able to send troops back to assist Jiangdong for at least a month, which will give them time to seize Jiangdong.

In addition, Sun Ce did have secret contact with Cao Cao and knew that Cao Cao would also send troops to Nanyang County. Even if Zhu Wei defeated Liu Biao, he would be restrained by Cao Cao's troops in Jingbei, which would give them more Time to run Jiangdong Danyang.

But they never expected that Zhu Wei would capture Xiangyang City so quickly, basically stabilize the situation in Jingbei, and then send Wang Yuyan back to Jiangdong with troops so quickly.

Especially after Wang Yuyan took control of the Niuzhu camp, Sun Ce received the news that Zhu Wei had sent troops to aid Jiangdong, which surprised Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.

As Zhu Wei saw in the map of the Three Kingdoms game system, Sun Ce had indeed failed to capture Danyang City at this time.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu really didn't expect Zhu Wei to send reinforcements to Jiangdong so quickly, and they did not come to Danyang City at the first time, but went to occupy Niuzhu Camp.

This news gave Sun Ce and Zhou Yu a headache. Naturally, they also knew the military strategic significance of the Niuzhu Camp. Originally, they were unable to divide their forces to seize this military base that had hoarded a large amount of weapons and food because of the lack of troops.

Then, they thought that it was impossible for Zhu Wei to send reinforcements so quickly, and they might be able to easily take over this armament base in the future, so they temporarily ignored the matter of capturing Niuzhu Camp.

But now Zhu Wei's reinforcements suddenly appeared and took control of the Niuzhu Camp immediately. For Zhu Wei's reinforcements, they gained logistical support for fighting in Jiangdong, but for Sun Ce, they lost their rapid improvement. The foundation of war heritage.

It's just that things have already happened, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are also helpless, regretting is completely meaningless.

Therefore, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu could only divide their troops to guard against Zhu Wei's reinforcements to support Danyang City, and sent people to inquire about the number of reinforcements sent by Zhu Wei, the generals who commanded the troops, and the situation in Jingbei.

On the other hand, it is stepping up the offensive against Danyang City. Speaking of Sun Ce's attack on Danyang City, it is indeed at a critical time.

Sun Ce also knew the importance of Danyang City and the urgency of his time before, so he did not care about human life and forcibly urged the young and strong civilians to attack the city desperately.

The siege of Danyang City was extremely fierce.

With the help of the young and strong peasants who came here, Sun Ce consumed the supplies such as feather arrows, falling rocks, and rolling logs of Liu Yao's army defending the city, and also exhausted the energy of the soldiers defending the city. In order to capture Danyang City in the shortest time, Sun Ce completely ignored his reputation. The young and strong ordinary people in the villages around Danyang City were coerced and driven into the flesh and blood siege battle of Danyang City. Therefore, Sun Ce launched the siege battle almost non-stop day and night.

In this way, Sun Ce could naturally find an opportunity, and suddenly dispatched Sun Ce's elite soldiers trained in Guangling County, under the leadership of brave generals such as Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Chen Wu, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, etc., to hide among the ordinary young and strong men to wait for an opportunity to make a surprise attack Danyang City.

In this way, Sun Ce's soldiers almost attacked the city wall several times, so that Liu Yao's soldiers guarding Danyang City did not dare to relax in the slightest.

Thanks to the so-called general Zhang Ying under Liu Yao, although his ability is average, he is still rigorous in defending the city. At the same time, his force has reached the standard of a second-rate general with more than 70, so that Danyang City has been maintained to this day.

But Danyang City is also in jeopardy.

Most of the more than 5000 soldiers who defended the city had been killed or wounded. Hua Xin could only recruit young and strong men to defend the city. However, if these young and strong civilians encountered the surprise soldiers sent by Sun Ce, they would be completely unable to withstand them. .

Therefore, it is impossible to say that Sun Ce's surprise attack could capture the walls of Danyang City, and then enter Danyang City.

In addition, Liu Yao, who was seriously ill, heard about the battle situation in Danyang City, and his condition became more serious due to worry. Now he has almost lost consciousness several times, and he may die of illness at any time.

In this way, whether it is the civil and military officials in Danyang City, or ordinary city guards, young and strong, facing the strong attack of Sun Ce's army, they are almost reaching their psychological limits.

Sun Ce, who has rich combat experience, can naturally feel this atmosphere, so he knows that the attack on Danyang City has reached a critical moment. He must not be discouraged at this time, otherwise all his previous efforts will be in vain.

Although now, capturing Danyang City may not be of much significance to Sun Ce's attack on Jiangdong, at least after capturing Danyang City, Sun Ce's army will be able to supplement the supplies that Liu Yao has hoarded in Danyang City, so that they can have the opportunity to rely on them again Danyang City came to face the counterattack of Zhu Wei's reinforcements.

Therefore, at this moment, Sun Ce stepped up his offensive against Danyang City. He didn't care about the [-] elites he trained in Guangling County, and threw them all into the siege war of attrition.
Sun Ce must break Danyang City before Zhu Wei's reinforcements arrive.

At the same time, Zhou Yu led Sun Ce's army of more than 5000 private soldiers of various ethnic groups, and began to march towards Niuzhu Camp, trying to harass and block Zhu Wei's reinforcements from rescuing Danyang City.

Even after Sun Ce captured Danyang City, Zhou Yu had to delay Sun Ce's recuperation time in Danyang City.

But before that, Zhou Yu had sent people to spread a lot of rumors. Basically, it was said that Sun Ce had captured Danyang City and captured Liu Yao alive. Now Sun Ce was reorganizing Danyang soldiers from Danyang and preparing to wipe out Liu Yao's remaining troops. army.

In addition, Zhou Yu lied and said that after Danyang City was broken, all the big families in Danyang also joined Sun Ce one after another. Now tens of thousands of new troops have been sent to Sun Ce, and Sun Ce's army already has tens of thousands of people.

Anyway, Zhou Yu spread a lot of rumors in Danyang County, saying that Sun Ce's army is strong, Liu Yao has surrendered to Sun Ce, etc...

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